Gratitude 9/26/11
1. 2810 Events
2. Air
3. Backing into a pole in my Porsche (It happened for a reason)
4. Vegas
5. TGI Fridays
1. 2810 Events
2. Air
3. Backing into a pole in my Porsche (It happened for a reason)
4. Vegas
5. TGI Fridays
Post by Jonathan Strietzel, September 17th 2011
Thanks to @shervin, @strietzel I was turned onto this amazing and modern day Lysistrata this afternoon via Twitter.
To remind you all, Lysistrata is one of the eleven Greek plays written by Aristophanes. It’s a comical account of one woman’s ambitious vision that leads to the the end of The Peloponnesian War. In short, Lysistrata successfully communicates her ambitious vision and ultimately persuades all of the women of Greece to essentially “Close up Shop” and forgo sexual activities, thereby forcing their men to negotiate peace in a time where women and politics absolutely did not mix. As humans are count to repeat history, the tale of Lysistrata seems to have been duped today in a modern day version in the form of a simple Mindanao village. AWESOME.
1. Setorii
2. Arnaz St.
3. WeHo
4. Sushi Mon
5. The Journey
6. Learning
7. Love
8. Friendship
9. Deidre
10. Paper Cutouts in My Car
11. The Internet
12. My Mother
13. Coffee
14. Espresso
15. Open Sesame Bar
16. Jessica
17. Angel
18. Derek
19. Coffee Bean
20. Theo
21. Chris Ueland
22. Mobile Phones
23. Best Buy
24. Macbook Air
25. Life
26. Setorii’s Heart
27. KDJ
28. Christina
29. Shoes
30. Air
31. Friends
32. My Brother
33. My Sister
34. My Father
35. My aunt and cousins
36. Warren
37. Sean Vanian
38. 2810
39. Eric Kuhn
40. Mandarin Oriental
41. Adam
42. RoR
43. eSurprise
44. Dating App
45. CSS, JS, Node.JS
46. Jon Snoddy
47. Jon Kraft
48. Doug
49. Water
50. Ammenities
52. Food
53. Car
54. Charter
55. Art
56. Creative Council
57. Alice
58. Todd
59. Science
60. USC
61. John Sweat
62. FG9080
63. Thunderbolt
64. Hosting
65. School
66. Books
67. Programming
68. The Bed on Arnaz
69. Enzo
70. The Condo on Arnaz
71. All of the experiences that come with the Condo on Arnaz, so grateful.
72. The last 10 Months of my Life. So grateful.
73. The learning experiences I’ve had over the last 10 months
It was time. My old and quite amazing, life-changing 2008 Macbook Pro took a turn for the worse last week. It started shutting down unexpectidly and its boot screen started showing massive signs of random pixelation upon boot. It became apparent that my boot issues coupled with my frequent computer crashes, screen freezes and the dead pixel that left a trailing red line on my beautiful 17-Inch HD monitor that it was about that time to truly consider a new laptop. But the type-A entrepreneural Fix-It mentality immediately kicked in to defend my bank account as it usually does, regardless of the purchase price or affordability of the item.
So, I found myself at my local Apple store waiting in a notoriously long line of Apple Freaks, dying to hear the call out “Mr. Jonathan Strietzel” or “Strietzel” for at least 30 minutes after my scheduled appointment. After an unfortunate wait, I found myself talking to the most genius of the Genius Bar crew within minutes at my local Apple Store at the Beverly Center. After a short series of texts, external boots from their secure HD, they only had one verdict. Logic board was dead or at least it was dying quickly and had very little time to live. My Genius quickly advised me to take immediate action and to get all of my stuff in order, to notify my Macbook Pro’s Next-of-kin, back up as much as possible, get my Macbook Pro’s will up-to-date, because even with all of his pure Apple Geniusness working at full god-like force, he would be unable to repair and save my once $4,000 Top-of-the-line Macbook Pro. Except for one potential solution….
So, the Genius of the Geniuses at Apple proceeded to tell me that he did have one potential remedy for my poor Macbook Pro’s unfortunate and dire situation. He then proceeded to tell me that he had found a donor that would be willing to donate a new Logic Board so that my Macbook Pro would have a new shot at life. He broke the sad and uneconomical news to me that the donor logic board wasn’t quite a donation at all, but that it was in fact a “Donation” from Apple Corporation that actually came with a steep “Donor Pricing” of $500-$600 (Including his very own “Genius” services to install it). After a brief discussion the Genius of the Geniuses confessed to me that he could not guarantee me that my logic board was the true culprit in this whole Computer freezing, shut-down and screen pixelation debacle. So, not only was I going to risk spending $500-$600 on a new Logic Board for my once stellar Macbook Pro, I was not even guaranteed that it would fix the problem. At $500-$600 for a “potential fix”, I immediately went into my typical and entrepreneurial calculations and efficiency mode and quickly came to this realization.
STRIETZEL’s CHOICE: Macbook Air 13-Inch, 125GB SSD (No need for the larger as nearly NOTHING is stored locally on my machines anymore due to amazing cloud-based services such as Google Apps (Email, Calendar, Contacts etc..), DropBox and Apples new App and iTunes Store that records all of your purchases in the cloud and with the coming advent of iCloud, it will be even more obvious to average consumers soon that buying larger local storage devices for your laptop simply doesn’t make sense. Its all about fast processing, lightning fast data retrieval, no moving parts, and file accessibility (storing all of your data in the cloud).
1. Chris Ueland
2. Setorii
3. Warren Jolly
4. WePay
5. Shawn and Loui
6. Lavazza Espresso
7. Office Space
8. Positive thoughts and energy
9. Daryll Merchant
10. Scott Ross
11. KDJ
12. Brenna
13. LGB Airport
14. Macbook Air
15. Fashion
16. Mosquito Nets
17. Medicine
18. Religion
19. Love
20. My Mother
21. My Father
22. My brother and sister
23. My Grandmother
24. Auntie, Uncle
25. Ryan
26. Jamie
27. Jeff
28. Ben
29. Email
30. SMS
31. Porsche
32. Cooking
33. Sushi
34. Granola
35. Le Pain Quotidien
36. WiFi
37. Thunderbolt
38. Apps
39. Affirmation Work
40. Masako
41. Dianna
42. Mike
43. Meka Homes
44. Anthony
45. AB
46. Kai Huang
47. Theo Agranat
48. Tai Lopez
49. Matt Mickiewicz
50. Mike Nguyen
51. Chester
52. Scott Ross
53. Jon Snoddy
54. Jon Kraft
55. Jon’s Family: Robo7 and the Kids
56. Breadbar
57. Beverly Center
58. Urth Cafe
59. Berkeley
60. MIT
61. Doug Fidaleo
62. Possibiilty
63. Hope
64. Science
65. A good cuddle
66. Flowers
67. PCH
68. Wineries
69. Bacara Resort
70. Maui
71. Airplanes
72. Kill Bill
73. The Notebook
74. Blogs and WordPress
75. SEO
76. Art Gastellum
77. Identity Management
78. Greg Gastelum
79. Greg Baldi
80. AbFlyer
81. Tim Ferris and the KettleBell
82. My Health
83. My grandfather
84. Clean Water
85. Sean and Senia
86. 2810 Private Resort
87. Sin City
88. NY
89. San Fran
90. Rick Marini
91. Cristina B
92. Bianca
93. Nikki
94. Geroldi
95. Brooklyn
96. Manhattan
98. Safari
99. Photoshop
100. Illustrator
101. Adam Kangas
102. CSS Outsourcing
103. RoR
104. Video Chatting
105. Music
106. Events
107. Fireplaces
108. Cabins
109. Buenos Aires
110. Uruguay
111. Land
112. TV
113. Freedom
114. Capitalism
115. Air Conditioning
116. Chess
117. Power and Electricity
118. Sanitation
119. Los Angeles
120. Peter Lamas
121. Tyler
122. Precious Metals Industry
123. Brainstorms with Suge Patel
124. A good sportcoat
125. College friends
126. Roger Douglas
127. Spencer
128. Michael Helfant
129. Robert and Leo
130. Caroline Barberio
131. Michelle Stevenson
132. Jonas
133. Deb
134. McKenzie
135. Enzo
136. Printers
137. Keys
138. A good bed
139. Vacations
140. Relaxation
141. Support
142. Trials and Tribulation
143. God
144. Chuck Taylors
145. Jim Casparie
146. Elliott
147. Precept, Lex and Chrystal, Beth, Megan, Lisa, Ebru
148. Travis and Jon
149. Chess.com
150. VS Chess
151. Big Stage
152. Machine Learning
153. JP Lewis
154. Zenyao Mo
155. Jeff Pai
156. Mike and Patrick
157. Joe
158. PJ
159. Jeremy Arnold
160. Brian Dilley
161. Kayla
162. Agencies
163. Tim and Shelby
164. Trevor and Taylor
165. Rosalie
166. Soccer
167. Notebooks
168. A mothers love
169. A fathers love
170. My close family
171. Eating Utensils
1. Family
2. Dr. Jolly
3. Open Sesame
4. Jim and Angela
5. Starbucks
6. Belmont Shore (2nd St.)
7. iPhone
8. iPad
9. Natraj Cuisine
10. My brother
11. My sister
12. Water
13. Opportunity
14. Sean Vanian
15. 2810
16. WePay
17. Terminal
18. Incredibles
19. Jenny
20. Kdj
21. Chuck Taylors
22. Money
24. Health
25. Sleep
26. Matt Trainer
27. Chess
28. Bella G
29. Words with Friends
30. Monitors
31. Mac’s
32. Books
33. PDF’s
34. Macallan 18
35. Tai Lopez
36. Maya
37. Derek
48. Andy Liu
49. Theo
50. Chris Ueland
51. Jack Bell
52. Trackpad
53. Oatmeal
54. Long Beach
55. eBay
56. SEO
57. Gold Reviews
58. Anthony Wheaton
59. Setorii
60. Breakfast
61. Espresso
62. Crepes
63. GoW3
64. CK
65. The Art Gastelum Foundation
66. Strietzel investment strategies